She has two children with a Sri Lankan-born woman, speaks Chinese and previously worked at global financial institutions — an ...

The far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) doubled its voter support to 20.8% in February's election, making it the second-largest power in the Bundestag. That gives it fresh momentum to ...

AfD party leader Alice Weidel is known for her harsh rhetoric. In parliamentary debates she has derided Muslim immigrants as “headscarf girls’ and “knife men.” That type of noise makes headlines and ...

She started out in China on a German government scholarship and stayed to write a doctoral thesis on its pension system, ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany party achieved its best result ever in Sunday's election. It is now set to be the main ...

At the start of the Cold War, in 1952, a book came out in the USA and Britain entitled The Russian Menace to Europe. The ...

The victory of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Friedrich Merz was met with relief in Ukraine. The conservative leader has long criticized the supposedly cautious Ukraine ...

German voters gave the far-right AfD party second place in elections, which will make the Christian Democrat Party's Friedrich Merz the next chancellor.

It is now set to be the main opposition party, giving a more prominent role to its co-leader Alice Weidel. DW takes a closer look at the woman who's become the public face of Germany's far right.

The AfD has articulated several key policies, which have proved popular with many German voters. They include: Alice Weidel, a former finance professional with a doctorate in economics ...

The leader of the party said she received the call after the party known as the AfD finished second in national elections, by ...

Results from the election in Germany indicate that Friedrich Merz's center-right Christian Democrats will be able to form a new government with only one coalition partner.